Qatar 2022.

Ever since Sepp Blatter announced that Qatar would play host to the 2022 World Cup, it has been said that the tournament may have to be moved to winter, due to Qatar's intense summer climate, where temperatures can reach up to 50 degrees celsius.

Surely, when the tournament was awarded, somebody must have said "Hang on, won't it be a tad hot?"

Today (24 February 2015) a FIFA task force officially recommended that the tournament by moved from June/July to November/December.

This falls directly in the middle of the European football season, which will throw it in to chaos. Now, you obviously can't arrange the tournament just to make the European clubs happy but they aren't the only ones that will be affected by the move;

• AFCON - The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations is due to be held in Guniea in January 2023. Players won't be able to play two major tournaments, one after another, and then go back to their clubs to complete the domestic season. The players will be exhausted.

• Asian Cup - Same as above. Although, not confirmed that the tournament will be held in January 

Also, with Qatar hosting the Confederations Cup in 2021, you have to assume that this will also be moved to November/December 2021.

Admittedly, if the World Cup was going to be moved, this is the only suitable time. Winter Olympics in January/February and Ramadan in April mean that November/December is FIFA's only option if you go by their point that May - September is too hot.

I've seen January/February 2023 thrown about by a few people (nobody official, just a few tweets here and there) but this would probably open up a who legal case of "It was awarded as a 2022 tournament, not a 2023 tournament" etc. So that's out of the question


Another option would be - move the host country.

Of course, FIFA won't do this on a financial basis. And while I agree that bringing the World Cup to a new country & seeing Qatar in their first World Cup would be nice (unless they qualify for Russia 2018), there are other great points to move the tournament such as the treatment of migrant workers infringing their basic human rights.

My choice of host? Australia or USA.

• Australia have just hosted a very successful Asian Cup & their domestic A League is growing rapidly as is football in the country. Australia already have many fantastic stadiums which could host matches, such as Stadium Australia in Sydney, Docklands Stadium in Melbourne & Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Not to forget the huge Melbourne Cricket Ground, at which 95,000 fans turned up for a pre-season friendly between A League side Melbourne Victory and Liverpool

• USA is pretty obvious as a choice. Huge country, a plethora of huge stadiums to choose from and the infrastructure is definitely there. I'd go as far as saying that USA would need little to no upgrades to prepare. MLS is also really taking off.

I very much doubt any of these would happen, and I think we're facing a winter World Cup in Qatar, but these are just a few points marking the problems and possible solutions